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Aug. 18th, 2007 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatHave decided that people are crazy in general. It could be that we evolved from monkeys or maybe aliens, haven't decided which.
Anywho, from the scan of flist - came up with a comforting bit from the professional television writer Ken Levine - who probably could write a dissertation on this topic:
Writers need a thick skin, belief in themselves, and five times a week therapy (prom rebuffs linger large).
Keep striving to improve, maybe find some constructive use in the rejection (if it’s offered and useful), but never let your worth be decided by someone else. Supposedly, Richard Wagner once wrote back to a critic who panned one of his works by saying (and I’m paraphrasing), “I am currently sitting on the toilet. At the moment your critique is in front of me. In a moment it will be behind me.”
I’ve written spec screenplays that have sold and others that haven’t. I used to ask my agent if they gave any reason for passing. I would hear such explanations as: too broad, not broad enough; too edgy, too soft; too familiar, too out there. And all these regarding the same script. My favorite rejection of all-time was from an idiot studio executive who said this about one of my screenplays:
“The writing was so good it almost fooled me into liking this script.”
It's just snippets. Want to read the whole thing? Go to his blog - at
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/kenlevine2/profile
This is what I needed to read this week - while fretting about what I should do next with the book I wrote. Writing the thing is easy compared to ahem, the next steps, which I'm procrastinating like crazy - by giving the book to four readers instead of just two.
After reading this bit - I read a truly frightening post on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
liz_marcs journal about the Real ID Act that got passed in 2005. Ack! Can we please impeach the Bush administration. Fire the Republicans and Democrats in Congress who are passing this stuff.
And stop acting like paranoid monkeys chittering in cages? The terrorists are winning - if we keep doing crap like this. Doesn't anyone get that? Canada...is looking more and more appealing, so for that matter is New Zealand. And I am going to be royally pissed if I have to take a passport with me every time I fly to Hilton Head to see my parents. If you voted for George W. Bush, remind me again why? I just don't understand why anyone in their right mind would have voted for this guy. Were you stoned? At this point I'm less afraid of terrorists killing me than I'm afraid of my silly governments attempts to protect me from getting killed. (I live NYC folks - and work in Penn Plaza - right above Penn Station.)
More evidence that people are crazy (but I probably shouldn't say that too loudly, because people also don't take criticism well...myself included.)
Anywho, from the scan of flist - came up with a comforting bit from the professional television writer Ken Levine - who probably could write a dissertation on this topic:
Writers need a thick skin, belief in themselves, and five times a week therapy (prom rebuffs linger large).
Keep striving to improve, maybe find some constructive use in the rejection (if it’s offered and useful), but never let your worth be decided by someone else. Supposedly, Richard Wagner once wrote back to a critic who panned one of his works by saying (and I’m paraphrasing), “I am currently sitting on the toilet. At the moment your critique is in front of me. In a moment it will be behind me.”
I’ve written spec screenplays that have sold and others that haven’t. I used to ask my agent if they gave any reason for passing. I would hear such explanations as: too broad, not broad enough; too edgy, too soft; too familiar, too out there. And all these regarding the same script. My favorite rejection of all-time was from an idiot studio executive who said this about one of my screenplays:
“The writing was so good it almost fooled me into liking this script.”
It's just snippets. Want to read the whole thing? Go to his blog - at
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/kenlevine2/profile
This is what I needed to read this week - while fretting about what I should do next with the book I wrote. Writing the thing is easy compared to ahem, the next steps, which I'm procrastinating like crazy - by giving the book to four readers instead of just two.
After reading this bit - I read a truly frightening post on
liz_marcs journal about the Real ID Act that got passed in 2005. Ack! Can we please impeach the Bush administration. Fire the Republicans and Democrats in Congress who are passing this stuff.And stop acting like paranoid monkeys chittering in cages? The terrorists are winning - if we keep doing crap like this. Doesn't anyone get that? Canada...is looking more and more appealing, so for that matter is New Zealand. And I am going to be royally pissed if I have to take a passport with me every time I fly to Hilton Head to see my parents. If you voted for George W. Bush, remind me again why? I just don't understand why anyone in their right mind would have voted for this guy. Were you stoned? At this point I'm less afraid of terrorists killing me than I'm afraid of my silly governments attempts to protect me from getting killed. (I live NYC folks - and work in Penn Plaza - right above Penn Station.)
More evidence that people are crazy (but I probably shouldn't say that too loudly, because people also don't take criticism well...myself included.)
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Date: 2007-08-18 04:42 pm (UTC)This is what I keep trying to do. And I have two different writing projects that I can work on, I just have troubles committing to them. I keep distracting myself and/or fretting about the one I just finished.
Sigh. Goal this weekend, besides joining gym? Working on my next writing project. If I can just get one chapter finished....
Sorry we missed each other. Although it is a lot harder to meet up with people in NYC than you might think. Takes about 45 minutes to get anywhere and there's the whole scheduling thing. I've been horrid at meeting up with folks from online. I do not know how people on my flist manage to find the time to visit one another as much as they do, not to mention the money. Better jobs? Possibly. Significant others with great jobs? Or...they are either students, freelance, own their own business, or retired?
Looks like my vacations are going to be limited to family visits this year as well. Don't have the time or money to do Belize this year, maybe next.